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Routine Outcome Measurement: A Survey of UK Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Author(s) -
Johnston Craig,
Gowers Simon
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2005.00357.x
Subject(s) - mental health , clinical practice , outcome (game theory) , medicine , mental health care , psychology , nursing , psychiatry , family medicine , mathematics , mathematical economics
Background: Research suggests that the routine measurement of treatment outcomes is a neglected area of clinical practice within mental health care settings. Still it is not clear to what extent such findings apply to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). A cross‐sectional survey of UK CAMHS revealed that although quantitative clinical measures are commonly used within these services, there is little uniformity in the instruments utilised, and they rarely inform a system of routine outcome measurement. However, in general, respondents did not have a philosophical or scientific objection to the practice of routinely measuring outcomes, but rather felt that they lacked the necessary resources to facilitate such initiatives.